U.S. Regional Airlines Face Severe Pilot Shortage

Regional-pilot shortage called severe. WSJ Film Critic Joe Morgenstern on the Oscar race. Plus, why talking about money is a good thing; and more. Photo: Getty.

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... help wanted in the cockpit ... regional airlines face what the new government report calls ... severe pilot shortage become accounting office citing low pay as a factor that could stall vital part of America's aviation network is five to over twenty eight times recently when a lunch break ... Rachel piers no-fly roughly half of all airline trips in the nine states ... but airlines are fighting an increasingly difficult to fill pilot positions ... Jack Nicas covers aviation for the Wall Street Journal he joins us now ... Jack thanks for being here so according to this new release government study ... eleven of twelve regional peers are struggling to fill these Cantrill Powell positions at compass get worse ... yes so the pilot shortage is ... already here of the eleven of the twelve regional carriers that you said are ... crucial to the U S airline history ... I had trouble finding out last year in a handful of those ... could only find about half of the palace they actually need it ... aam and that with this problem is expected to get worse because I there's expectations for ... a much higher ... rate of retirements of the major airlines of their senior pilots ... therefore they're going have to fill that gap and didn't have to look for more pilots and it just seems like there's not enough pilots out there ... as LPL's ensues coming right ... why are they on willing to pay pilots more that's what's really the trial my ... I'll what is one of the problems I mean it sort of a perfect storm here you've got ... on a new federal regulation that requires ... on the new pilots to have ... basically six times as many hours they ever did ... not to be a co pilot a regional airline ... so the costs in that time the time necessary to become a at passenger pilot ... is much higher ... meanwhile as you said that these regional pilots pay very little we know it is the average for the regional airlines in the ... average starting pay for Coke others twenty thousand foreigners dollars a year ... so there's not much incentive to go in this industry so ardently when the Casa so high to get into it ... and the starting pay is so low ... ah ... but the issue I guess is that it can they pay more and it seems like ... I it's gonna be difficult for them because the business model for these regional airlines is to keep their costs low that's why they fly on behalf of major line because their costs are lower ... they don't have much with all Rome ... to pay their pilots more because they're so desperate to keep costs low ... right so they're serving some of these big carriers now how are the big carriers being affected if there's a pilot shortage that could really hurt their networks cracks ... absolutely um this is a key issue here lot people think well ... okay says the small airlines don't fly alone care about but the reality is these are these are basically the United American Delta ... of the world because ... you know these are ... all of their flights are flown on behalf of a major line so we've Artie seen United ... say that their regional partners didn't have enough house to meet United's demand ... of their flying ... to United made big cuts in Cleveland recently ... achieving some of that release was expedited by the Polish or so ... as we see more regional airlines struggle to hire pilots ... were going to see the major airlines have to cut some of its regional flying which is crucial to their network ... so let's say you're one of these pilots are making under twenty three thousand dollars a year or so starting salary ... we do have hope of ... making two hundred thousand dollars eventually working for one big airlines find these international routes is a steppingstone become a regional pilot can at least offered them that ... absolutely I think that the Part Italy with this pilot shortage ... in and leave the profession can actually be quite attractive in aam ... you know the guys at the higher level up of the industry ... are getting paid the first two hundred thousand dollars a year and are living the dream of what all of these guys go into it for an airplane big planes internationally Cetera ... aam ... the issue is can you make it there because it's such a tough slog to get the cost ... of that is to basically ... undergo the training with the cost and time necessary ... and then that ... I have to live on these ... poverty level wages for supper years but ... when you can withstand that you have some sort of financial supporting get the loans etc ... opportunity with its Polish origin the demand for pilots ... it seems imminent battle of these guys are going to get very good jobs and ... interesting alright Jack Nicas thinks reporting on this ... thank you ... coming up next Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern will handicap thrust the best picture ... and best director Oscar races coming up ... Tce ... he ... knew ... this year film goers got lost in space and revisit the horrors of American slavery ... and the one in our region story based on a real-life stamp ... joining us now to handicap the best director and the all important ... best picture race ... is Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern ... job things for joining us in a lot of people are going to hang on every word they thought their Oscar ballots this year so what star with a best director ... meetings didn't win the Oscar you think should win ... you know this year has been a great year for movies was born with interesting film after another ... here we are at the end of the dollar almost and ... I think it's unclear coal ... lease from where I come ... from ... critical ... photo Cueto ... and red ... Coral ... did something new this year ... I do charge for years for the Journal describing know who the nominees I have to have to convince my ... my thoughts into little thirty five word descriptions ... and Carolyn came around to grab the Inquirer on the first word was new ... how often you can say that about a film of candidate not often that all ... Arun was an innovator he was an entrepreneur ... he managed to get Warner Brothers in the production partner ... to get on board that read expensive production ... without ever being able to show the foot of the revolutionary food ... the ... he turned out to be able to make ... it was a salesman who really had a good ... to know who the result for me ... if we're going to stay with quarreling for this as a director ... as a man who ... single handedly has brought ... innovations to ... an industry low artform that ... is desperately needed them ... gravity points the way toward different and new ways of thinking so ... I am a technological around and push things forward so much but ... which are there any dark horse contenders out there you visit any chance of the surprise Sunday night ... will it pay to ... follow him to the perils of upon with dark courses and two the Korean but ... in the state McQueen did the marvelous job it is the director ... twelve years a Slave ... and it ... does absolutely nothing to be said again it's the flu ... it's a film that needed doing it's a film and says things about American slavery that has ever been to before and I'll ... and you can only wish it well ... when possible but ... the in the greenroom ... when this director though I don't think so ... it's more possible that the twelve years a Slave woo reading this picture ... don't you know I keep coming back to ... you ... what my heart tells you which is ... gravity is the one that ... say there are better gravity ... on the somewhat many others out there seem to think the same thing that they have ever thought of him over to best picture race in ... the twelve years a Slave ... back he has a good chance this year are scared a lot of buzz this awards season ... but haven't felt lately that the momentum is shifting in favor of grabbing for best picture is well what's your protection on this one ... well you know I'd I'd predicted the revenue should win and will win and I hope it goes when ... well I know ... the motion picture Academy is some six thousand people the average age is sixty three ... normally that aims to the conservative ... although I'm afraid this year the something hard thing and surprising on the list of the non vets films ... it's like Jones's her ... she's beautiful and poetic and ... in its own right ... you ... know and and ... but Jones didn't give the best director nomination I think he should have ... but ... room was very happy to see the film a move the stool ... the way it devoting more ... could that ... are ... the chances for twelve years a Slave Amina scuttle polarizing film in some respects ... the weather running works primarily is that the actors division is the biggest division them they would carry the crude is voting weight ... and there's some really wonderful performances and twelve years a Slave ... whereas gravity of the performances ... set of all it is marvelous I can't imagine that the movie could've been that as well with ... her ... book The of the great reformers the camera ... I have really seen is saying that the race is so tight that there'll be a split in favor of tell me now is that just ... wishful thinking any chance of that ... you know Harvey Weinstein is the party should win his own unsecured to shameless moves ... Carney has spent a fortune and millions of dollars promoting ... this nice little film Philomena ... the Gunners nothing to say against it as a nice little film with ... a ... nice Judi Dench performance ... and to be condescending ... to do that is a wonderful actor she had given the outperformance ... and she's ... given the good one here ... it's a minor Phil ... Harvey has managed by dint of perseverance and huge expenditures of money ... to get this film a best picture nomination ... the idea that it would actually when ... they ... don't want to contemplate ... write the great Joe Morgenstern thank you for ... offering your protections to us to look awfully good ... but it is ... it's one of the last great social patterns talking about money ... but what are calmness is broken role regularly for years and joins us next ... she's more ... estimate to thirty seconds ... it's ... conflicts over money chores and children have done in many a marriage ... the trouble Kong has gotten ... personal about the subject ... with WSJ's Katy McLaughlin writing about the tough choices she and her husband make ... opening up those decisions to her reader scrutiny ... or file called Kitty which the curtain on what's been like so bright to juggle and she joins us now so if they so much for joining us ... help me find you have two different generations of reverse bombing cure columns ... who are they and how are they different ... yet at the end of day I got a lot of responses from people who I read my generation who are in the same situation that I and and ... they are married there working and they're racing and children ... about a lot of that is some ... kind of people who have more time to read and write in their thoughts ... people of my parents' generation in the sixties seventies and eighties ... and they're off and incomes that generated a lot of response there was really a generational divide that was fascinating to observe and in these letters ... interesting how ... when it comes to children marriages on us about the timing ... have you figured everything out I mean BOF after reading this column for so long the new master who was there if you haven't figured yes I ... the eye and figured everything out ... is there anything you like and I know everything now and not worth it ... and with it ... if you if you focus and then analyze any part of making financial decisions and and and it's a well ... run up against conflicts and ... it was funny when I first on the Supreme M I five I dunno I can convince my husband and I don't have any conflicts about ... money ... um but I actually found that when you start to talk about the issues that two thousand when the Fed to think about them you realize you know everybody ... comes from a different perspective my hand and I actually come from very different backgrounds from another country from another culture yet really different circumstances drying up ... so we have in fact have been able to come up with plenty of material ... um but I ... think definitely learned from readers because I got all of these incredible Letters from readers ... I'm and particularly from the older ones that that you know it this might seem obvious they really came home and reading letters that the things that seem ... like a really big deals in the moment to start to fade and the perspective of time and some things that I really worried about him is wringing my hands about a lot of older readers said in a wet ... sweat that now ... that it's not going to matter ... um in in alot Ready and and I think that it's really good advice there a lot of things that a second able to say you know what I'd I can let this slide this'll be okay so what Coleman has gotten the strongest trigger reactions there when it comes to mind ... if any of them generated hundreds of that response is that what the generated ... a ton of responses and add Beery interesting generational divide ... which one I wrote about ... relieved if liking the fact that my five and six year old son for the time were getting so much homework ... and I talked about a neighbor of mine to actually didn't elaborate children to do homework and I was kind of craving ... and I got so much response from that ended with a hundred educators for it to me and this is fascinating ... the older generation that since the seventies eighties generation ... particularly of educators ... wrote me saying hallmark is wrong at this age were absolutely bratty ... children should not be doing this on my kid that age they don't have time for chores they don't have time to do charity they don't have time to play ... um and people of my generation ... were saying how can you say that you are the cause of the downfall of public education a chorus of inches in the way ... that that was absolutely amazing that was really the most divisive between the generations while that they put all the news a lot ... of or the calm and follow the anti suggested that as a conscious objective ... making memories ... is really important artist on a price valued it outright ... but that that ... that ... finishing came from another comic that a lack of response I wrote about trying to decide whether they were going to rent or buy a home and I got so much reaction from that ... the older generation again had a really great respect them because they venture all this and they had years of defense from when they actually bought these houses ... so what what what many of its innings two of the greatest but he said a We bought a house and it was decades ago ... that they lived in for twenty three years how we argued how we fight about that purchase and my husband's ... feet away from a day after a night ... I am worrying the idea to overpay by four hundred dollars ... and then she said and took twenty three years later when he sold that house we sold it for ten times the we bought it for ... so people were is telling me that ... the money issue can fade ... but ... having raised your family in that home ... that was really what matters everything else can be fixed it could be adjusted ... you can rebuild stuff that ... this would really be the place for you ... they are the real treasure was the time of year when favored this that in that house well effect with me I thought that with that and the not ... so well and I agree making memories that's important but also making sometimes butter Housel somebody there to do a column thank you so much for joining us to talk about a column ... Burgundy France produces some of the most sought after and pricey ones on the market ... with a look at bottles that ... won't break the bank ... cannot next ... 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